As in holiday seasons past, many of us will struggle with finding "the perfect gift(s)". This is often difficult and many of us will default to spending money on a gift that someone does not really need.Here are a few ideas for unique gifts that can be long remembered and perhaps even treasured. The gifts relate to helping others maintain and share their special family photos.
The two large and reputable online professional scanning services, ScanCafe and ScanDigital, both offer gift cards for their services. ScanCafe also offers a pre-paid gift box that the recipient simply fills with photos, slides, and negatives. What comes back is a collection of digital scan files and the originals.
The collection of scanned images can then be duplicated and shared with an entire extended family. With these digital files, each family member can add the scans to their own photo collection and creatively use the images in a broad range of their own projects.
You may be running out of preparation time to assembly images for a special photo book for the holidays. However, you could describe a photo book project you will commit to as a gift. For ideas and a sense for the process, visit Picaboo, Snapfish.com by HP , or Kodak Gallery. Photo book products at each are impressive. I believe Picaboo leads the pack with its range of themes, templates, and creative ideas to be found at its website.
If you have a special image that you would like to present framed, it is not too late to upload a scanned image to one of the major online printers and to order a ready-made frame from the likes of Dick Blick Art Materials. I suggest that you look at Nielsen Bainbridge Artcare metal ready-made frames at Blick. These are museum quality, attractive, reasonably priced, and come with everything you need to impressively frame a print (except for a bit of photo safe tape to attach the print to the mat).
For more family photo organization, preservation, and sharing suggestions, visit LocalArchiver.com.
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